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539-Close Approaches
During a recent 30 day period, 11 small space rocks passed closer to us than the Moon. If one of them were to enter our atmosphere and you were dire…
7 years, 2 months ago
27E-39-Dash Cams And The Anatomy of An Airburst
Aleksei Dozorov, a motorist in Russia stated “You can get into your car without your pants on, but never get into a car without a dash cam,” . This …
7 years, 2 months ago
538-Asteroid Slam
Humans are slamming projectiles into space rocks. These experiments will give us the know how to deal with a dangerous space rock which has our numbe…
7 years, 2 months ago
26E-38-The Big Ones
One million human lifetimes ago an asteroid impact was at least partially responsible for eliminating the dinosaurs. This event has allowed our race…
7 years, 3 months ago
537-Earth Glow
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona of…
7 years, 3 months ago
25E-37-Slow Movers At The Edge Of Our Solar System
Imagine a world that is so far from our Sun that it receives less than 1/5000 of the heat and light that makes our life possible. If your were standi…
7 years, 3 months ago
536-Ultima Thule
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped obje…
7 years, 3 months ago
24E-36-Earth and Moon as Evening Stars
A human with normal vision standing on Mars would see the Earth and our Moon as a double evening star. An observer on Mars would also see the distanc…
7 years, 3 months ago
535-Alone Or Not
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breathe…
7 years, 3 months ago
23E-35-An Asteroid With A Ring
Programs 31-60
Travelers in The Night
Programs
Contents
1 31-A Gentle Breakup Of An Asteroid
2 32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid with a Moon
3 33-A B…
7 years, 3 months ago